suji 8317 Posted October 7, 2018 prominent visual kei library グラスレ (grass thread) has unofficially been closed after having been inaccessible recently, plus a lack of updates over the last few years. I assume the admin decided to close the door on the site for good. http://www22.big.or.jp/~yunisan//index.html 4 crucifiction, The Reverend, VESSMIER and 1 other reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomoMAD 256 Posted October 7, 2018 It's so sad, i really hope that this amazing visual kei library get open again ❤️ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
saishuu 3220 Posted October 7, 2018 now this, everyone, is the saddest day in visual kei's history. 3 2 Jigsaw9, asagaos, IGM_Oficial and 2 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LIDL 692 Posted October 7, 2018 Well, hope someone have uploaded the pages before it closes on web archive, otherwise, goodbye forever. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nick 10212 Posted October 7, 2018 IMO, this is not the first time it happened. IIRC, grassthread wasn't accessible several years before due to the owner not paying the server rent I supposed. So I hope this time it's the same issue, and I will make sure to make a backup of the entire site again because the backup I made years ago still misses some certain pages. If not, at least I still have a backup of the incomplete site. 7 Zeus, PIZAZ, IGM_Oficial and 4 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nick 10212 Posted October 7, 2018 (edited) Well, I have it up in the link below. There was an issue regarding encoding being in both UTF-8 and Shift-JIS, but I got it fixed by configuring nginx to respect the original character set of each html file. If you encounter a 404 not found page, it means the page doesn't exist to begin with because my backup is incomplete but most of the artist pages should be available. https://yunisan.boxjapan.com/ Edited October 7, 2018 by nostalgia 9 5 Laurence02, Zalemu, LIDL and 11 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Moon 989 Posted October 7, 2018 tfw an elite trader on soulseek blocked u from downloading that 96 kbps madeth demo because u didn't have perfect tags sourced from grass thread. this is an end of an era 1 1 1 returnal, suji and jon_jonz reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Takadanobabaalien 3607 Posted October 7, 2018 rip my rightful youth Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Peace Heavy mk II 7200 Posted October 7, 2018 Should have been Jame RIP 1 suji reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
seikun 317 Posted October 7, 2018 (edited) 8 hours ago, nostalgia said: Well, I have it up in the link below. There was an issue regarding encoding being in both UTF-8 and Shift-JIS, but I got it fixed by configuring nginx to respect the original character set of each html file. If you encounter a 404 not found page, it means the page doesn't exist to begin with because my backup is incomplete but most of the artist pages should be available. https://yunisan.boxjapan.com/ You save it!! I used to call the site "yunisan" because that word was the only one readable and identifiable in the link to the site. All the information the site contained was priceless and literally one of my last connections with old Visual Kei. Really thankful that you saved all the information! Edited October 7, 2018 by seikun 2 nick and merchenticneurosis reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
merchenticneurosis 441 Posted October 7, 2018 14 minutes ago, seikun said: You save it!! I used to call the site "yunisan" because that word was the only one readable and identifiable in the link to the site. All the information the site contained was priceless and literally one of my last connections with old Visual Kei. Really thankful that you saved all the information! Me too! I always google it with "band name x yunisan" 2 Zalemu and seikun reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nick 10212 Posted October 9, 2018 it's back partially. only static html pages are accessible for now. i assume the owner has already paid for the rent but the web server config is still wrong. https://www22.big.or.jp/~yunisan/vi/x.html 1 suji reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrenGun 2261 Posted October 9, 2018 5 minutes ago, nostalgia said: it's back partially. only static html pages are accessible for now. i assume the owner has already paid for the rent but the web server config is still wrong. https://www22.big.or.jp/~yunisan/vi/x.html be sure to make a full backup when it's fully back again Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nick 10212 Posted October 15, 2018 (edited) Let me assume from what it looks like. The issue behind grass thread going down beside the server rent is that it's on a shared host and the hosting provider has upgraded PHP to version 7 according to the headers which is not compatible with the WordPress version grass thread has been using. This explains why only static HTML pages are still working while HTML generated ones get an HTTP 500 error. At this rate grass thread may never come back at least on the same URL unless either the hosting provider allows them to choose a working older version of PHP or they upgrade WordPress to a recent version. If it's the latter, there could also be other issues that could break the site due to the gaps between versions. Edited October 15, 2018 by nostalgia 1 suji reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nick 10212 Posted October 15, 2018 (edited) Messages from the owner from the new URL. It seems they can't access the site and want to build grass thread from scratch. http://www22.big.jp/~yunisan/ And an incomplete site is up. http://www22.big.jp/~yunisan/vi/dic.html Edited October 15, 2018 by nostalgia 1 suji reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
suji 8317 Posted October 15, 2018 vk.gy has also implemented a new feature where grassthread pages are queued and automatically added to the database so they don't get lost. However, they'll have to be manually edited by admin users as it's automatic and may have some mistakes. 2 nick and PIZAZ reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nick 10212 Posted October 15, 2018 (edited) It's good to mirror/archive such information so it won't get lost over time. I'm glad that the owner of grass thread is still alive and doesn't seem to lose interest in VK. Edited October 15, 2018 by nostalgia 1 suji reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
